TY - BOOK AU - Edmans, Alex TI - Grow the pie : : how great companies deliver both purpose and profit SN - 9781108494854 U1 - 658.408 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Social responsibility of business KW - Wealth KW - Income distribution N1 - Table of Contents Introduction How to read this book Part I. Why grow the pie? Introducing the idea: 1. The pie-growing mentality: a new approach to business that works for both investors and society 2. Growing the pie doesn't aim to maximise profits – but often does: freeing a company to take more investments, ultimately driving its success: 3. Growing the pie doesn't mean growing the enterprise: three principles to guide trade-offs and which projects to turn down 4. Does pieconomics work?: data – not wishful thinking – shows that companies can both do good and do well Part II. What grows the pie? Exploring the evidence: 5. Incentives: rewarding long-term value creation while deterring short-term gaming 6. Stewardship: the value of engaged investors that both support and challenge management 7. Repurchases: investing with restraint, releasing resources to create value elsewhere in society Part III. How to grow the pie? Putting it into practice: 8. Enterprises: the power of purpose and how to make it real 9. Investors: turning stewardship from a policy into a practice 10. Citizens: how individuals can act and shape business, rather than be acted upon Part IV. The bigger picture: 11. Growing the pie more widely: win-win thinking at the national and personal levels Conclusion Action items Appendix Acknowledgements Endnotes Index ER -